Introduction of the HTRDP Chinese IR Evaluation Task

In this paper, we give a brief introduction of the HTRDP Chinese Information Retrieval Evaluation, which is sponsored by HTRDP (High Technology Research and Development Program of China, namely 863 Program). The web data collection, query design, evaluation metrics, and the evaluation procedures will presents in detail. Like TREC, NTCIR and CLEF, its purpose is to provide the infrastructure necessary for large-scale evaluation of Chinese information retrieval methodologies and to help advance the state of the art in information retrieval technology. We conclude our paper with results analysis and future works. Keyword: Chinese IR evaluation, web data collection, evaluation metrics.